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WEA Newsletter Oct 2018 THE WHITE ENSIGN ASSOCIATION October2018 Edition 7 newsletter Welcome to the Seventh Edition of The White Ensign Association’s Newsletter The heat and dust of this year’s long, hot summer Royal Navy and Royal Marines communities we help. seem to be well and truly behind us and the recent Our new partners include AFH Wealth Management, weather makes it feel like we have skipped Autumn Insignia Crew, Mitie, and Utility Warehouse. All have altogether and dived headlong into the great British an interest in recruiting former service personnel and winter. There has been much activity and demand we look forward to working with them in the future. for services since the Association’s birthday event in the Palace of Westminster back in July and things This edition has updates and articles from some have certainly not slowed down, making the WEA’s of our new and existing partners, including an in- Diamond Anniversary year one of our busiest. depth article and case study from one of our charity partners, HighGround. We also have an interesting The Regional Managers have worked a full programme article with information and statistics about the Royal of visits to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines bases, Navy and Maritime Britain and an excellent piece on providing a series of our Financial Awareness and the Super Yacht industry from Insignia Crew. Our Your Future presentations to a wide range of audiences valued partner, Associated British Ports launched across the trades and rank spectrums and conducting their Women in Maritime Charter in September and personal interviews, giving one to one advice this is featured in this edition, as is the British ex- covering all the subjects core to the WEA’s mission – Forces in Business awards, which took place earlier Personal Administration, Finance, Employment and this year. Resettlement. The next edition of the WEA Newsletter will be We have welcomed a number of new commercial published at the end of January 2019. Until then we organisations as Industry Partners in the past few wish all our partners, clients, supporters and wider months and look forward to working with them in friends all the best for the rest of 2018, Christmas and creating job opportunities for the Service Leavers, the New Year. Veterans, Reservists and family members across the 1 Free instructor ‘Trained and trusted led, practical resources’ classroom course From a unique IT solutions provider Cerco offer FREE practical IT training Do you want a career in IT? We can make it happen! UK wide presence Cerco have been training and selecting candidates to get a foothold in the IT industry since 1989. Since then thousands of candidates have been trained and placed into roles for some of the largest IT companies in the UK, including Fujitsu, HP, Computacenter, Ricoh and NCR. Could you be next? Our clients are looking to place Cerco students into their roles and see the significant [email protected] benefit that ex-military candidates bring to their organisations. Previous IT experience has never been a pre-requisite of ours, so don’t worry about not being up to speed with the latest technology, we’ll teach you what you need to know and you will be paid full market pay rates for any work you do for us. More and more employers are looking for vocationally trained people. They need to Call us on know that they have been trained to do the job, not just to pass exams. Cerco have 01270 219760 been at the forefront of this type of hands on IT Training for nearly three decades. In September-18, these two candidates signed a permanent contract with Computacenter, having successfully completed their 12 month temp to perm assignment with Cerco. We have roles UK wide. This could be you! This is what their regional manager had to say: ”On behalf of everyone I’d like to say well done and congratulations to both JS and DG who have worked extremely hard and delivered above expectations. I know CERCO IT LTD from experience that embarking on a new career outside of the services isn’t easy. Cerco House The initiative is national so we’re looking across other regions and I’m confident that working together collaboratively we’ll get there. I mentioned at the outset that this was a really great day for Southmere Court Computacenter, but similarly it is for Cerco IT and I’m sure that the partnership will continue to flourish.” Coppicemere Drive Crewe, CW1 6GU Why don’t you give us a go, you’ve got nothing to lose and could be soon on the journey https://cercoit.co.uk to a satisfying career in IT. [email protected] Tel: 01270 219760 NAVAL AND MARITIME BRITAIN BASIC INFORMATION & STATISTICS and some relating to the wider maritime world ] And now for some facts and figures to salt away for that vigorous debate at the bar or a very challenging game of trivial pursuit (all data has kindly been collated by our good friend Lt Cdr Lester May RN) Royal Navy, Royal Marines & RFA ships The Fleet in numbers - those RN ships and submarines not in or not yet in service highlighted Aircraft carrier – 1 + 1 building LPD – 1 + 1 in reserve Type 45 Destroyer – 6 Type 23 Frigate – 13 Type 26 Frigate – 3 ordered + 5 more planned Type 31e Frigate – Competition relaunched: delivery of first of 5 frigates anticipated 2023 Ocean Survey Ship – 1 Echo Class Survey Ship – 2 Ice Patrol Ship – 1 River Class Patrol Ship – 3 (HM Ships Clyde (based in the Falkland Islands), Mersey, Tyne) River Class Patrol Ship (second batch) – 1 + 4 building Hunt Class MCMV – 6 Sandown Class MCMV – 7 Archer Class Patrol Boat – 16 Scimitar Class Patrol Boat – 2 (both at Gibraltar) Island Class Patrol Boat – 3 Coastal Survey Vessel – 1 Dreadnought Class SSBN – 3 building + 1 more planned Vanguard Class SSBN – 4 Astute Class Fleet Submarine – 3 + 4 building Trafalgar Class Fleet Submarine – 3 RFA Oiler & Replenishment Ship (RFA Fort Victoria) – 1 RFA Tide Class Fleet Tanker – 4 RFA Wave Class Fleet Tanker – 2 RFA Solid Support Ship – 2 RFA Primary Casualty Receiving Ship + Aviation Training – 1 RFA LSL – 3 3 Royal Navy aircraft (numbers not known): F-35B Lightning II – at least 1 + X planned (809 NAS stands up in 2023) Merlin HM2 – ASW Merlin HC3/4 – Commando, 24 troops Wildcat HMA2 – ASW + Anti-ship Wildcat Mk 1 – Anti-tank, 8 troops Hawk T1 – Trainer King Air 350ER – Trainer Grob 120TP Prefect – Trainer Royal Navy and Royal Marines Shore Establishments Having looked at the assets afloat and in the air lets now remember the major units on land – the stone frigates under the White Ensign (RM units are in green). Ministry of Defence (MoD), Whitehall > 1SL + Naval Staff Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), MoD Abbey Wood, Bristol (+ sites at Yeovilton + Corsham) JHQ Northwood > Joint Forces Command (JFC) + Chief of Joint Operations (CJO) UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO), Taunton Fleet HQ, Whale Island > Fleet Commander, 2SL, COMUKAMPHIBFOR. COMUKMARFOR, CRF HM Naval Base Clyde > ACNS SM & FOSNI FOST (North)), COMFASFLOT, RNRMW (Scotland), 43 Cdo FPGRM HM Naval Base Devonport > COMDEVFLOT, RNRMW (West), 1 Asst Gp RM (+ 10 Trg Sqn (11 (ATT) Sqn at Instow)), 539 Asst Sqn RM HM Naval Base Portsmouth > COMUKCSG, COMPORFLOT, CFPS, Naval Chaplaincy Service, RNPT,RNRMW (East), HQ CCF (RN), HMS Victory Horsea Island, Cosham > Fleet Diving Squadron, DDS Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth > RNLA HMS Caledonia + MoD Caledonia, Rosyth > NRC SNI, RM Band Scotland HMS Collingwood > COMOT, MWC, MWS, RNLA, RM Band Collingwood, DSCIS HMS Drake > FOST (South), COMCORE, Hasler Company HMS Excellent > HQ BS RM, RNRMC HMS Heron – RNAS Yeovilton > CHF HQ + 727, 815, 825, 845, 846, 847, 848 Naval Air Squadrons, RNR Air Branch, RNRMW (Central), ASGp RM HMS Jufair – UK Naval Support Facility, Bahrain (commissioned 5 Apr 2018) HMS Nelson > RNRMW Hub, DCMH, RN PDTMC, RMSM, RM Band Portsmouth HMS Neptune HMS President > CRF) + 13 other RNR units + 5 RMR units nationwide HMS Raleigh > RNSMS, DMLS, RM Band Plymouth HMS Seahawk – RNAS Culdrose > SFDO, MASF + 736, 750, 814, 820, 824, 829, 849 Naval Air Squadrons HMS Sultan > DSEME, DSMarE, RNAESS, AIB, HMS Temeraire > RNSPT NAIC – RAF Northolt CTCRM Lympstone > RM Band CTCRM RM Bickleigh > 42 Cdo RM RM Chivenor > Cdo Log Regt RM RM Condor > 45 Cdo Gp RM RM Norton Manor > 40 Cdo RM RM Poole > SBS Training, 148 FO BTY RA RM Stonehouse > COMATG, HQ 3 Commando Brigade RM, 30 Cdo IX Gp RM 4 The Merchant Navy + merchant shipping – some statistics Having looked at those operating under the White Ensign let’s have a little look at those that sail under the Red Ensign and the world they operate in. • Ships carry 90% of world trade. Some 95% by volume of UK trade – 75% by value – is by sea; significant internal trade goes by sea between the UK’s 700 ports (and each container sent by ship is one fewer lorry journey – less road and rail congestion). • There are some 1,850 UK-owned merchant vessels of all types. Infomarine lists 146 UK merchant ship owners and operators. • 47% of energy used in the UK is imported by sea (of which 13% is LNG). • Over 50,000 merchant ships sail the seven seas – 33% are bulk carriers, 21% general cargo ships, 14% tankers, 10% container ships, 22% ferries, cruise ships and specialist vessels. • 20 million containers are crossing the globe right now! One 18,000 TEU container ship today carries as much cargo as a 50-ship convoy in the Second World War. 10,000 containers are lost at sea each year! OOCL United Kingdom (in service 2017), one of a class of six of the world’s largest container ships, can carry 21,413 TEUs.
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